Why Apple is not a good example as a startup

Apple’s co-founder Steve Wozniak:

People often look to me as an Apple cofounder for advice. I may have a lot of internal feelings, mostly related to personality, that I relate but in general, Apple is a bad example as a start-up. Apple was a rare case that doesn’t apply to people starting companies. With Apple, there were extremely favorable elements of our success that you can’t count on or control.

One product was our only successful one, earning money for the first ten years of the company, and it wasn’t even what people think.

(From the foreword of Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution by Uri Levine)